Fresher's Week

Next week is Fresher's week and to coincide with this we've organised an extra special Shake it! with the best two indie nights in Manchester - Underachievers Please Try Harder and Pull Yourself Together. It will only cost you £2 all night, with or without a flyer!

Check out the Fresher's playlist
Shake it mix sept 10 by Shake It!
1. Tokyo Police Club - Bambi
2. Fang Island - Daisy
3. Pulled Apart By Horses - High Five, Swan Dive, Nose Dive
4. Tame Impala - Lucidity
5. LCD Soundsystem - I Can Change
6. Summer Camp - Was It Worth It?
7. Wild Nothing - Golden Haze
8. of Montreal - Sex Karma
9. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Beverly Kills
10. Surfer Blood - Floating Vibes
11. Tweak Bird - Light In Lines
12. Everything Everything - Suffragette Suffragette
13. Warpaint - Ashes To Ashes (David Bowie)

Life Is Sweet!

February's Shake It! will be opening with an early-doors playback of the new album from the fantastic Lightspeed Champion - "Life is sweet! Nice to meet you".

Playback will start at 9pm and you can expect giveaways and all the usual! See you there! x

January's Playlist

A short playlist from last month's Shake It!, mainly stuff that was played early on... after that we forget what was played ;)

Apple Pie Bed - Lawrence Arabia
Feet To The Sky - Lulu & The Lampshades
Listen and Repeat - Televised Crimewave
Not A Problem - Black Lips
May B 1 Day - Ikara Colt
Crocodile - Hatcham Social
Marlene - Lightspeed Champion
You Said - Chikinki
Blueberry - Late of the Pier
I Can Talk - Two Door Cinema Club
We Want War - These New Puritans
Taste The Last Girl - Sons & Daughters
Higher Than The Stars - The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
There Are Listed Buildings - Los Campesinos!
“Further Complications." - Jarvis Cocker
Mistakes & Regrets - ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
11th Dimension - Julian Casablancas
Light Of Love - Music Go Music
Bubbles - Biffy Clyro
Reptiles - Them Crooked Vultures
Ambling Alp - Yeasayer
Gold Guns Girls - Metric
Man In My Mind - Race Horses
Stay Away From Me - The Star Spangles
Suffragette Suffragette - Everything Everything
Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground - The White Stripes
Stand By Your Manatee - Future Of The Left
I Want You To - Weezer
No Wow - The Kills
Lips - Micachu

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Hello There... So good of you to drop by.

In case you've stumbled here by accident, this is the little piece of the blogosphere occupied by Shake It!, which is a Friday Night Artpop Party, held on the second Friday of every month at Manchester's best alternative venue, the very swanky Star & Garter.

We originally started the night as we were tired of the city's abundance of swaggering lad-rock clubs, and uninspiring cut-and-paste indie-electro nights. We wanted to play the music that gets us excited, and bring Manchester's discerning club-goers an ever-changing playlist of edgy, noisy, intelligent and - most importantly - danceable alternative music.

Picking out the best of the fresh crop and some recent alternative gems, along with a handful of forgotten cult classics, we're always excited to put together a playlist that is creative and lots of fun to dance to - from artrock to new wave, mathpop to indie and all sorts inbetween, depending on how the mood takes us!

Having launched in late 2008, the press we've received has already noted how Shake It! has "quickly established itself as an alternative alternative...keeping an indie aesthetic without succumbing to too much trash or electro pop" (Manchester Evening News).

It would be ace if you could join us!

Second Friday of every month 9 'til 2.30

£5/ £4 with a flyer
And because it’s the Star & Garter, there’s cheap doubles all night!